It was a cloudless summer day in Australia in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at the remote Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed in the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, until at last they disappeared...

Joan Lindsay's classic tale, memorably filmed in 1975, is a sinister, supernatural, sensory experience of memory, loss and eternal mystery. Adapted by Tom Wright from the book by Joan Lindsay. (Hire)